TERRIBLE CYCLONE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 459, 2 April 1890, Page 5

TERRIBLE CYCLONE.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. TWO THOUSAND HOUSES WRECKED. A CITY IN FLAMES. PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH. N k\v York, March 28. Further reports of the cyclone experienced along the left bank of the Mississippi state that the railway station at Louisville was swept bodily into the Ohio River. Two thousand houses were levelled to the ground, and trains and trams were blown ofi the tracks. Owing to the houses being wrecked the city was speedily in flames at many Doints, and numbers of unfortunate residents who were unable to escape from ■the debris were burnt to death. A party of Scotch tourists, farmers and several English travellers were killed. The metropolis of Illinois was destroyed, engulfing the Catholic Church, which was full of refugees. The lowlands of Arkansas and Mississippi were Hooded and hundreds drowned.

The tornado affected all the Western States, and was felt worst in the Ohio Yalley. In Indiana the cyclone swept everything in its path for a width of 500 yards. r . The towns of Bowling Green, Jeffersonville and Newport suffered-greatly from the tornado and floods. The mortality at Louisville is estimated at under one hundred, and the loss to property at two millions.

New York, March 30. A tornado, accompanied by a snow blizzard, ploughed a track from Nebraska to New York, 114 miles long Jjy one-third that distance in breadth. . The lists of casualties and mortalities are heavy at Bowling Green, Metropolis, Nashville and a number of minor Tike • tornado was officially , predicted, but the populace were incredulous, The Mississippi embankment is yielding, being tfostjual to the pressure •of the flood* ■-